Clay,
Before we close out this subject, I want to say that some of Chris' points
were well made. I too think Dianna should have further investigated the
background a little more. It's not just about Harry Chamberlin or Chilton &
his partner Irving Talentmaker. There's so much more...
I would have liked to see the film include more on what lead up to using
recording tape to play back other peoples instruments. Perhaps a small section
explaining how recording tape stores and plays back sound. Actually, I've always
wondered how they get the oxide to stick to the tape. Oh, and how the oxide was
invented... who thought that up?
When one thinks about Harry Chamberlin, who doesn't wonder about that
garage where he made his first instruments. Who built the garage? Did Harry's
wife (Ethel) ever yell at him to stop fooling with his inventions and wash up
for lunch?
And Optigans... They have to be in the film so that people know that there
was actually a shittier way to reproduce real instrument sounds for playback on
a keyboard than the Mellotron. Where's the fucking perspective? How else would
people actually know that Harry's technology reached its pinnacle with the
Mellotron and that any attempts to advance beyond that were just a giant
nosedive into a pile of crap.
God love the M4000, but it is, after all just a brand new Edsel with a
better motor, stickier tires and a substantially larger trunk (boot). *
So if your going to make a movie about Mellotron, fuck Kanye, tell us more
about something important, like how Harry Chamberlin came up with the idea to
house the mechanics in a Formica box years before Jimmy Moore stole the idea for
his Mellotron.
Was Mattel the only toy maker to try to build a crappy Mellotron rip off,
or was Hasbro thinking of getting into the business as well? Where's the
research I ask you? Where is the perspective.
Do you realize that there's video out there of Mattias Olsen playing wine
glasses on his Mellotron? Where does anyone thank Ben F**king Franklin for
actually playing music on real wine glasses 250 years before Mattias even
existed? Where's the perspective?
Mellotrons should be like Harleys... Only old fuckers should have
one.
Frank
My Mellotron
My Harley (Yeah, it's a Shovel Head)
* I love mine so no one freak out.
In a message dated 9/29/2009 10:42:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ecclesreinson@rogers.com writes:
--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Chris Dale wrote:
> You're lucky I'm not the moderator here. Your sneaky dishonest ass would be gone.
I am BORED to death with this story Chris. Please take your issue with Mattias offline. Nobody gives a shit about it here but you.
I will not be removing anyone from this group. Mattias is welcome to post messages here anytime. Hopefully you haven't frightened him away.
Clay